Perspective, Interpretation.
Big Boy probably had a very specific meaning, probably negative, and over time, people are born who never know of the specific meaning, but like the sound of it and wanna say it. Their own perspective is attached to it. Whatever it had before is meaningless to this person. Especially because the negative is so stupid, that obviously your nebulous is better.
What’s dumb is to treat that person as if they are fully informed of, and are apart of, some nebulous negative group, For 2 reasons:
One is it’s just childish and rude. Anyone above 12 coulda guessed that one.
The second is it was one of many multiple hundreds of thousands of millions of chances to take away the negative. You hurt what you want to defend because then you can’t defend anymore. You lose an aspect of yourself you don’t want to lose, and due to that, growth is haulted, selfishly.
I understand some people saying they can’t emotionally depart from the negative given the history they personally experienced. Not of the past itself, it is irrelevant to those born after the fact, as with all forms of art, which in of itself is humanity and humanity based, it is interpretative. To it’s core, to it’s face value. Both or neither. However for society to improve and grow, it can’t stop just due to a negative of any value. It’s why trigger warnings are insulting and degrading, to the point of treating mentally injured people like spoiled children. It stops progress for them and everyone else because it normalizes not growing and healing. It normalizes that you don’t have to grow, because this is your life now. Cradled.
When someone says “Jap” I assure you, nobody would be caught dead using it’s old fashioned language, and not a soul today would assume it meant anything but a language version for some media. Yeah you thought we were talking the big ol’ N, well we can but there’s no point, people have made up their mind, they want a word that’s negative for black people, all sides. Dunno why but hey, ya’ll want it, go for it! Words are interpretive art. Like with all art, you have to learn it’s core and subtleties, while that can include it’s history, apart of art is seeing the subject in a vacuum, no bias or history, just you, and it.
And some most people, really want another way to hate black people, and see no value in devaluing that aspect, despite multiple fucking attempts. But whatever, idiots gonna idiot.
What people need to grow up and learn to do, is detach an entire assumed culture to words, and hand gestures, like please. Dear god. The Okay symbol being racist was a fucking meme, it was meant to get idiots to believe it, and it worked, it worked like the feminazi bullshit of old times. Oh yeah, same people, 4chan, dear god.
Lemme put it to you this way. Your color of red is different to mine, there is no way to prove otherwise, it’s red to you and me, but your red is different just due to difference in the biology of our eyes, and interpretations of our minds, and our personal perspective of that mental interpretation. Really we’re all just tripping balls and barely able to have the world in view as we do. We aren’t as sharp or fast paced as we’d like. Certainly unable to understand our minds, and to say you do, is an absolute admission that you really don’t.
Within this same logic, is art, art is literally human made, your dog doesn’t look at something and go “Oh this is too beautiful, I can’t even.” and that’s nothing on the dog, we’re just stupid and like pretty shit. So we give it meaning, or, our brains give it meaning that we interpret from there.
Art is man-made ideas. That is all. And thus, words are art. Your version of red is different than mine. In fact, what you immediately think of when Red is said is not only different to me, but different to you mere moments ago, in fact your immediete interpretation is now different to the current interpretation. But intrinsically, it means nothing. We can take the abstract then give it a personal meaning that someone else simply won’t be able to cognitively connect, but have their own personal meaning none-the-less.
For you to HAVE to make an entire culture become a single person for you to go off on because a single word was uttered that you personally disagree with... I mean like... you understand that’s not...okay...right? It’s not normal either. It’s why despite how fucking stupid religion is, you don’t have the right to personally shit on someone for their religious beliefs. There is literally no one version of god to anyone. They all have a god that’s simply a human with too many powers to handle.
But to dismiss someone on those grounds, to dismiss them on their interpretation of (x) is simply embarrassing. I’ll gladly shit on the entire idea and ideology and how some of the people operate and that in general I think it’s a bit deluded and embarrassing, but I know they think the literal exact same to me and others, and don’t think less of me or my ideas for it, they simply go along with it, because at the end of the day, ignorance, is just another interpretation. Their own ignorance of my beliefs and how I feel is an interpretation they maturely take in. But being a dick and trying to force your beliefs onto others, it’s certainly an interpretation, but it’s one that speaks volumes to how you interpret other people.
For that same line of reasoning, the way you interpret the art of language, including specifically only caring enough about a handful to keep within the negative space, I cannot, for the life of me, understand how that is socially acceptable.
I’m not sorry to say, I haven’t seen anything in the 25 years I’ve been around to say any of the words we treat as negatives ever truly needed nor need to be. Why not be adults, take that step FORWARD, and let interpretation take hold, and not our interpretation be treated as the forefront.
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